Our tour guide at Jamestown in Virginia didn’t check to see whom she was addressing before she smirked that the Pilgrims of the Mayflower – so celebrated in U.S. history books – w… ...

Explorers to Roanoke Island in the 1580s found the natives smoking tobacco in a new way – from pipes. The English, looking to colonize and find riches in the New World, took up the habit, fou… ...